Description of problem: Install RHEL5 update 1 using kickstart. Specify a volume group name like 'mkearey-vg'. After package dep resolution and filesystem is successfully created, the installer fails with a traceback stating : OSError: [Errno2] No such file or directory: '/dev/mapper/mkearey-vg-rootvol' Looking at the state of the system at the time of the failure, there exists /dev/mapper/mkearey--vg-rootvol Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a kickstart with the following partition details: partition /boot --fstype=ext3 --size=200 partition pv.00 --size=1000 --grow volgroup mkearey-vg pv.00 logvol / --fstype ext3 --vgname=mkearey-vg --name=rootvol --size=1000 --grow logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swapvol --vgname=mkearey-vg --size=1000 --grow --maxsize=2000 2. Begin the install, using ks=PATH_TO_KICKSTART_FILE Actual results: anaconda python traceback including: OSError: [Errno2] No such file or directory: '/dev/mapper/mkearey-vg-rootvol' Expected results: Clean install where dashes are allowed in both volume group and logical volume names, and handled properly by anaconda Additional info: This problem is likely to affect all releases of RHEL5 not just update 1.
Note https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=407701 is equivalent bug from Fedora 8
Duping to a future bug where a patch is discussed. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 430907 ***